After the message from Santorum, a narrator opens the ad by saying, "Meet Bob Casey's campaign team."

In general, the ad is false outright. None of the seven men portrayed in the ad are actually members of Casey's Senate campaign team. One man referenced is actually dead. And though the group is shown in one shot behind prison bars, none of the men referenced are currently behind bars.

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Claim No. 2: "A Philly businessman gave Casey $31,000."

Here, the ad is talking about Ron White, who was charged with conspiracy and extortion. But White has not given to Casey's Senate run. And it's impossible for him to be part of Casey's campaign team because he's been dead for two years. White's donations all were directed at Casey's run for governor in 2002, and that was before word came out that he was under investigation.

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The campaign also said that over the years, Casey has taken huge sums of money from people with questionable morals. But of the seven men portrayed in the ad, the Casey Senate campaign has only accepted a contribution from one individual, which was for $2,000.

But there's more -- Rick Santorum has taken money from two of the men portrayed in the ad, including a man the ad references with these words: "Several more of Casey's largest contributors are under investigation, including Casey's handpicked campaign finance chairman."

That line refers to Robert Feldman. But Feldman and his wife actually gave Santorum $2,000 for this Senate campaign. Feldman hasn't given any money to Casey, and he's not Casey's handpicked campaign chairman.

It's just frustrating the hell out of Santorum that his opponent is another pro-lifer, not somebody he can scream "Liberal, liberal, liberal" about. This time he won't be getting the Catholic Democrats who voted for him in '94 and '00, so the only choice he has left is to up the sleaze factor (or kiss Don Imus' ass a little harder - pretty nice feat for a homophobe, Ricky).
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It's just frustrating the hell out of Santorum that his opponent is another pro-lifer, not somebody he can scream "Liberal, liberal, liberal" about. This time he won't be getting the Catholic Democrats who voted for him in '94 and '00, so the only choice he has left is to up the sleaze factor (or kiss Don Imus' ass a little harder - pretty nice feat for a homophobe, Ricky).
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http://spreadingsantorum.com/

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

As OTR can attest, the Indiana Bloody 8th has produced some doozies from incumbent John Hostetler. You can't swing a dead cat without Willie Horton-like distortions and lame liberal-this, liberal-that attempts at fear mongering.

And as usual, the Democratic candidate is as vanilla as it gets.

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The D is winning, though, isn't he? Or running close?

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As ever, it's close. There's no reason it should be, Hostetler is worthless.

But Ellsworth is yet another in the line of vanilla candidates the Dems think can overtake the GOP through a smile and blandness. I have no idea how he inspires anyone, outside of dismay for Hostetler, which is considerable, especially in my Democratic bastion in the GOP woods.

As one might guess, both parties are bringing in the heavy attack ad artillery for this one. Debates are coming soon.

I caught the Barry Goldwater doc on HBO over the weekend, and I thought this was going to be a thread about the little girl with the daisy ad.

They showed that on the doc. LBJ should have been mortified. His campaign advisor's response?

"Politics ain't beanbag." Sheesh.

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Hey, LBJ, although certainly an oil-soaked asshole who fucked up spectacularly in the ensuing four years, wasn't the one throwing off casual quotes about how he'd use tactical nukes to clear the Vietnamese forests.

Cronkite was on the money when he said, in so many words, he's had enough of the Goldwater apologists crying about being "lynched by the media" in 1964. Goldwater provided the media every inch of the rope it needed all by himself.

The two main planks of Goldwater's 1964 campaign:

1) Let's use nukes in Vietnam.

2) Let's defeat/repeal the Civil Rights Act, and keep the Negroes in the back of the bus.

There aren't many presidential elections where one side is "right" and the other is "wrong." But this was one of them.